“…DOI Spin caloritronic effects have been extensively studied using integral (homogeneous) thermal gradients [1,2]. In ferromagnetic conductors exposed to a thermal gradient in the Nernst geometry, one observes the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE), which describes the occurrence of an electric field E ANE / ÀM Â rT, perpendicular to both the temperature gradient rT and the magnetization M. The anomalous Nernst effect has been studied in a variety of ferromagnetic thin film metals [3,4], oxides [4,5], spinels [4,6,7], and diluted magnetic semiconductors [8]. In analogy to charge-based caloritronic effects, the recently discovered spin Seebeck effect (SSE) [9] describes the generation of a spin current J s parallel to an applied temperature gradient rT in ferromagnetic materials.…”